Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanark in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[Calthrop]

Lanark in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

Lanark holds, every June, a seemingly rather bonkers week-long celebration called "Lanimers" -- assorted parades / perambulations / ceremonies / fancy-dressings. Spalding, Lincolnshire, holds each May a Festival -- looking "penny-plain" verging on dull, in comparison -- chiefly concerned with the town's renowned tulip-growing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crowland in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[Calthrop]

Crowland would seem to make capital out of its being a venerable town: having inns called Ye Olde Abbey, and Ye Olde Bridge. The same "conceit" is encountered in Banbury, Oxfordshire: with its pub called Ye Olde Reine Deer (at least -- mercifully -- not "Deere").

 

[341o2]

John Deere is a manufacturer of agricultural and garden machinery, one of its UK retailers is at Midhurst

 

[Calthrop]

Morris-dancing sides with wondrous names: Midhurst has the Knockhundred Shuttles. Clevedon, Somerset, boasts the Billy No Mates Electric Morris -- a North Somerset Cotswold jig side. (I've no idea what this stuff means -- but it involves good fun with words.)

 

[johnnychips]

The poet Coleridge lived here for some months, but the most famous place associated with him is Porlock, wherefrom a person visited and interrupted his muse.

 

[DerekC]

Borth, Ceredigion, also possesses a submerged forest on its beach.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanrhystud in Ceredigion also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Ceredigion Coast Path.

 

[johnnychips]

Firbeck, near Maltby, also has a Black Lion pub.

 

[Springs Branch]

Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire was also the site of a World War 2 RAF base.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cootham in West Sussex also has a gliding club.

 

[Calthrop]

Kimmeridge in Dorset, in the Isle of Purbeck, also has oil deposits under it; and a small facility for the extraction of same.

 

[D6130]

Port Erin on the Isle of Man also has a clifftop 'folly' tower overlooking it's bay.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bus Vannin, the Government-operated local bus company on the Isle of Man, provides late night Hullad Oie (Manx for "night owl") bus services from Douglas to Port Erin.

Another town which benefits from Friday & Saturday night buses from its nearby city centre (operated by First Greater Glasgow in this case) is Newton Mearns in Renfrewshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Invergordon in Ross and Cromerty is another settlement that was created a Burgh of Barony.

 

[Calthrop]

Swindon, Wiltshire: is another settlement which goes in in a big way, for murals around the town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnsley in South Yorkshire also has a church named the Holy Rood.

 

[Calthrop]

Guildford in Surrey is also twinned with a settlement in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Barnsley's "twin" is Schwaebisch Gmuend; Guildford's is Freiburg im Breisgau.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochester in Kent also has a Guildhall.

 

[D6130]

Portchester in Hampshire also has a Norman castle built within the walls of an earlier Roman fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wymering in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Fareham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Wymering Manor -- oldest building in the Portsmouth area -- now unoccupied, has in the past been a Youth Hostel; and is reputedly haunted. Another, still functioning, supposedly haunted Youth Hostel, is the castle of St. Briavels -- Gloucestershire, near Chepstow; all manner of ghostly manifestations reportedly go on there.

 

[DerekC]

Anyone born within the Hundred of St Briavels who has worked for a year and a day in an iron ore or coal mine in the same Hundred, can apply to be a Free Miner, giving them the right to mine in the Forest of Dean. The Hundred of St Briavels includes Cinderford, where the local hospital is based. Unfortunately it has recently closed its maternity unit so it's likely that the supply of Free Miners will be substantially reduced in future!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Springs Branch]

Aberaeron in Ceredigion also has a chalybeate well producing iron-rich waters once consumed for their alleged health benefits, which are no longer commercially provided for this purpose at these locations.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ynyslas in Ceredigion also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Ceredigion Coast Path.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ynyslas lies on the B4353 road, as does Llancynfelyn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerau in Bridgend County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Cynfelyn.

 

[Calthrop]

Henry Morgan, controversial pirate / privateer / colonial administrator; was born, it is thought likely to have been in Caerau, in 1635. According to one of various accounts of what originally took him to the West Indies -- the part of the globe where, essentially, he "did his stuff": he was, as a youth, abducted while in Bristol; taken across the Atlantic, and sold as a servant in Barbados.